Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Yasiel Puig is the Dodgers' right-fielder, a Cuban defector who loves driving too fast and indulging in steak and eggs just about every morning. This season, he was late to his first game, overweight, and playing his usual no holds barred baseball, injuring his thumb in a wild head-first slide into first base not too long ago.
Puig's definitely got his defenders and his haters when it comes to his behavior on and off the field, but little has been known of his journey from Cuba to the U.S., until now.
Jesse Katz, who wrote about Puig's journey for the May issue of the Los Angeles Magazine joins the show with more.